Posing In-between

Tobias A. Wachinger

ISBN 10: 3631510004 / ISBN 13: 9783631510001

Published by Peter Lang Jun 2003, 2003

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While Britain is still struggling with defining a new cultural identity after empire, writers like Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi or Zadie Smith who position themselves in a peculiar cultural space in-between are at the forefront, rather than periphery of the ongoing debates what it means to be English. The 'hybridity' of these celebrity writers is glowingly praised by the dominant voices of critical theory as the ultimate way out of cultural parochialism. In Posing In-between the author shows in what ways these writers are defined by the mechanisms of a commodified postcoloniality, serving the exoticist reading desires of a jaded mainstream literary industry and catering to the obsessive occupation with Englishness as it is characteristic for imperial nostalgia.; Dissertationsschrift. 252 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Posing In-between
• Publisher: Peter Lang Jun 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631510004
• ISBN 13: 9783631510001
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 160H x 14D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 392 grams

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Synopsis

While Britain is still struggling with defining a new cultural identity after empire, writers like Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi or Zadie Smith who position themselves in a peculiar cultural space in-between are at the forefront, rather than periphery of the ongoing debates what it means to be English. The ‘hybridity’ of these celebrity writers is glowingly praised by the dominant voices of critical theory as the ultimate way out of cultural parochialism. In Posing In-between the author shows in what ways these writers are defined by the mechanisms of a commodified postcoloniality, serving the exoticist reading desires of a jaded mainstream literary industry and catering to the obsessive occupation with Englishness as it is characteristic for imperial nostalgia.

About the Author

The Author: Tobias A. Wachinger studied English and Comparative Literature at LMU Munich and St. Peter’s College, Oxford, and is presently a postdoctoral scholar at UBC in Vancouver. He has published on postcolonial literature, multiculturalism, the city novel, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Christopher Hope and Timothy Mo.